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ESSENTIALS OP BACTERIOLOGY. 



with curative effects in several cases of tetanus in man. It is 

 a globulin, but differs from the anthrax anti-toxin, and it is 

 found exclusively in the serum. By precipitation with alcohol 

 and drying in vacuo the anti-toxin is obtained in a solid state. 

 The aqueous solution is used for injection subcutaneously or 

 subdurally through a trephine opening. Its injection into the 

 spinal canal by lumbar puncture has also been recommended. 

 Anti-toxin is more beneficial in chronic cases than in acute. 



Habitat. The bacillus is present in garden earth, in manure ; 

 and it has been isolated even from mortar. 



The earth of special districts seems to contain the bacilli in 

 greater quantities. 



FIG. 84. 



Bacillus of 



ilignant oedema, from the body-juice of a guinea-pig inoculated with 

 garden earth ; X 1000 (Frankel and Pfeifl'er). 



Bacillus (Edematis Maligni. (Koch, 1881.) Vibrion Septique. 

 (Pasteur, 1875.) 



Origin. In garden earth, found lately also in man, in severe 

 wounds when gangrene with oedema had developed. Identical 

 with the bacillus found in Pasteur's septicaemia. 



Form. Rods somewhat smaller than the anthrax bacilli, the 



